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Research Guides: Economics



Books: Use the Library Catalog

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Articles in Journals/Magazines

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

Business & Industry On campus use only
Facts, figures and news on international companies and markets.

Business Dateline On campus use only
References to businesses from regional publications.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals. **A new interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research.

Business Wire News (EBSCO) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Consumer Index On campus use only
Abstracts on consumerism and consumer protection.

Disclosure On campus use only
Brief information on publicly traded corporations: address, ticker symbol, SIC codes, products.

Econ Lit On campus use only
Index to economic literature.

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text back runs of major academic journals. The Arts & Sciences I Collection, to which Millsaps subscribes, includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Mergent Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Mergent Online is an Internet accessible database that replaces the Libraries’ print subscriptions to the Mergents Manuals (formerly Moody's). Mergent Online has extensive information on companies, including financials, stock, properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, S.E.C. filings, debt, etc., for over 11,000 U.S. companies as well as over 17,000 foreign companies. This database is especially useful for company financial information, with data going back fifteen years. Individual and comparative company and industry financial information and ratios can be created and downloaded to Excel, Word, or as an HTML file. Mergent’s company files also provide real-time access to EDGAR® filings, dating back to 1993 and updated daily.

Newspapers

The New York Times Online (1980 – present) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The complete text of articles back to 1980 is provided in text format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.

The Wall Street Journal Online (1984 - present) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The complete text of Wall Street Journal articles back to 1984 is provided in text format.

Web Sites

FRASER Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is a Historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

RePEc Unrestricted Resource
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 58 countries and 35 US states to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online -- Economics & Business Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
A Dictionary of Accounting, A Dictionary of Business and Management, A Dictionary of Economics, A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, A Dictionary of Human Resource Management, The Handbook of International Financial Terms

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Directories

Business Organizations On campus use only
Directory of business and industrial organizations.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full text, online version of EB.

Government Information

EDGAR: SEC filings and forms Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Makes available information about companies, including most SEC filings, address, telephone number, state of incorporation, CIK number, SIC code, and fiscal year end.

Organizations

Worldscope Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Brief financial reports on companies worldwide.

Statistics/Data

Foreign Information by Country Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A well organized collection of foreign country information websites put together by the University of Colorado, Boulder's Government Publications Library.  Information can be accessed by country or by resource.

Federal Reserve Bank: ALFRED Unrestricted Resource
Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data. ALFRED is the real-time database of economic time series.

Federal Reserve Bank: FRED Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
FRED is a searchable database of over 3000 US economic time series. Users can create customized charts for all data series.

GeoFRED Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
GeoFRED creates thematic maps of state, MSA, and country-level economic data. The data maps allow the user to see their region's economic condition at a glance (making economic data easier to understand).

The International Trade Center Country Information Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The International Trade Centre, an organization that helps the business sectors of emerging and transition economies to develop exports, provides country-specific business information such as trade and market profiles and Country Maps on this site.